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With the LNER in the Twenties
Alan Sutton

With the LNER in the Twenties

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This nostalgic and evocative book looks back from the author's third quarter-century to his first. With the aid of his own splendid collection of photographs taken at the time, Humphrey Household tells of his four and a half years of training on the London & North Eastern Railway.

From childhood, railway employment had been his goal and he achieved it in 1925 when he entered the very effective training scheme generally accepted as the best of any British railway company.

At that time the railway station was a lively part of village life with its regular passengers, long distance travellers, locals off for a day's shopping, day trippers, school children and farmers with their carts and cattle. It was also a microcosm of railway life and, as such, the favourite training ground for new entrants to the service. During their training they were moved around these wayside stations at regular intervals.

Armed with his camera Humphrey Household was thus equipped to record the everyday scene on the railways of the north-east in a unique way. From Durham to York, Ripon and Harrogate, from Pocklington to Cambridgeshire by way of Hull Docks and the 1926 General Strike, he captured the locomotives, the coaches, the stations and the rolling-stock during the Golden Age.

The majority of the photographs in this collection have not previously been published. With his stimulating text they tell of Humphrey Household's years with the LNER in the Twenties.

Hardback with dust jacket, 180 pages, black & white photographs

Condition: Good/Very Good

ISBN: 9780862992262